Mae West Quotes

I saw what a mess a lot of people could make of their lives when they're smitten. Some of them go temporarily insane. They find a person who they think holds the key to their happiness-the only key to their happiness... My work has always been my greatest happiness

Sex with love is the greatest thing in life. But sex without love--that's not so bad either.

Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!' 'Goodness had nothing to do with it'.

Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.

Curve: The loveliest distance between two points.

... love is banality to all outsiders.

A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.

I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.

It's all right for a perfect stranger to kiss your hand as long as he's perfect.

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action

I know so much about men because I went to night school.

all pleasures should be taken in great leisure and are worth going into in detail; love is not like eating a quick lunch with one's hat on.

You gotta get up early in the morning to catch a fox and stay up late at night to get a mink.

I've been in more laps than a napkin.

Sometimes it seems to me I've known so many men that the FBI ought to come to me first to compare fingerprints.